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Nice pix

Lol. I know that building. I used to stay close to the street. The house is actually sitting on a swamp. The pix was taken from the back. From the front, the house looks like a hotel with flags of various countries flying there.

soe:
Nonsense list.

Give us Oby Ezekwesili

Oby Ezekwesili is from the south, an igbo woman, a staunch Christian, a woman, an international achiever, a human rights activist, a freedom fighter, an incorruptible public servant, madam due process, madam bringbackourgirls, madam no nonsense, iron lady...former world bank vice President...mama d mama


‪#‎APC‬...no dulling...we want the best.

This is why Nigeria will not move forward. The poster is basing his/her arguments of tribal and religious sentiments. Notice how the first qualifications he/she listed were tribe and religion. What was her track record when she was in public service? No mentions. Except she was an incorruptible public servant. Based on what criteria? As for me, I will gladly go with either Fashola or Oshiomole. And if I should add my own candidate, I will add Donald Duke of Cross Rivers and strike out Amechi from that list.

P.S. I'm an Igbo and a Christian. From the same state as Mrs. Ezekwesili. I believe she may have some good track record as an activist and world bank vice president, but it isn't quite the same as a political office.

Put up pics of the phone na

topsytechy:
lol can any android phone print things out without cables. or bluetooth

Yes, it's part of Android feature itself and not of the individual phone.

topsytechy:
And how much are these phones.. you still dont get my point.. try reading it again

Lol. Maybe u didn't get my point across. My old Nokia E5 could print via bluetooth, wifi and USB. Now do u get my point? It is an ancient feature that is a part of Android itself and hence, any Android phone could do it. There are even apps on the Play Store for phones to print on printers that might not be compatible with the phone OTB.

All samsung, sony, htc and iphones can print over bluetooth, usb, or wifi. I guess you are new to smartphones.

CuteMaro:
I know, wanted to explain it in d simplest way... As in 2 say brick is brick 4 easy understanding.... But when u soft brick an unrooted phone, chances of getting it back r slim, & moreover, u just can't easily HARD BRICK ur phone, it happens in most cases of carelessness. One more thing, root privileges is for people who knows what they are doing.

Chances of recovering a soft brick phone is never slim. Most often, it requires a re-installation of the stock rom. Seems like you really don't know much about this.

CuteMaro:
if u read and carefully follow procedures for the rooting of a particular phone, there is certainly no risks involved. As 4 a rooted phone, u can easily unbrick as many times as you brick, u can as well recover ur phone when Locked beyond code entries, without having to format system. These 2 above stated cases, would cost an unrooted phone user alot of Cash, and in d case of bricking, irreversible damage. Maybe we should use Google and YouTube more Often, to prevent these kind of talks.

Dude, there are two basic types of bricks. The soft and the hard. The soft brick can easily be fixed and recovered from, but when you hard brick a phone. It has a 90% chance of staying dead for life. No pun intended.

Whoever wrote this crap must be using a Nokia 3310 because he actually has very limited. if any, knowledge of what rooting is.

Hahahaha. Meanwhile, as a Black Friday (and possibly a Cyber Monday) special, you can buy the phone without an invite. Seems to me that the people that bought your invite will probably be kicking themselves right now.

So, assuming I "buy" the invite from you for 3k, how am I going to get the phone for cheap? Because, the invite doesn't reduce the price of the phone in any way. They will still sell the phone to me at the same price it is being sold to others with an invite. And doesn't that mean that I bought the phone at a more expensive price? Cos of the extra 3k I had to pay.

nenergy:
Easy champ. Nigerians aren't afraid to pay. The payment method is the challenge. Many people don't trust online payment. Imagine a situation where your ATM is in your pocket, yet you're getting alert about a purchase on jumia.com. Go to the banks and see him many people still withdraw over the counter.

Payment method is no longer a challenge on online stores abroad. I have been using my GTBank Naira Mastercard on Amazon and Ebay with no issues. Heck, I even once used it once on porn site just to prove something and win a bet/argument. Like someone pointed out, all you need to do is to add ur card to your google wallet/paypal/amazon and use those pre-processors when you want to purchase stuff online. Talking about getting alerts on ur card when used locally is a fault with either the bank, local pre-processor or both. Interswitch has improved a lot lately with their verve cards though, I don't use it. Just make it a habit of never being an early adopter of any new tech for financial transactions and avoid shady sites and you'll be good to go.

Newton8:
Just like every average nigerian, am a hardy user of whatsapp...if not for the love of chatting, atleast it is free and effective! But I was shocked when I received a message on 7/11 to select my [/b]'PAYMENT MODE' and that my free usage expires in 5days( now 4).



Abeg, whoelse got the message [b]and I hope hackers have a way around this already... 'Cos it won't be funny at all.

Nigerians and this our poverty mentality. So, you prefer that some hackers hack whatsapp for you to enjoy it indefinitely rather than paying $1 for a year subscription which translates to 168 Naira for a year, 14 Naira a month, 3 Naira a week, 46 kobo a day. Is it more than what you spend on stuff you hardly ever use nor need? Is it up to how much u spend on airtime or beer? This is why we don't move forward as a people in this country. We are happy to pay for the epileptic services being rendered to us eg Telecoms, NEPA etc, but will rather look for a way out instead of paying for those services that we enjoy and have served us effectively.

Anyways, for others that wouldn't want to pay, why not seek out other better alternatives to whatsapp that are available like Telegram and Wiper?

spikesC:
How pathetic. Reading this thread tells us how backward Nigerian commerce and customer satisfaction is, and then, how the people themselves have succumed to accepting the mediocrity as a norm.

A company accepts responsibility and tells you they would process a refund in 7 days, and doesn't keep to their word. A supposed educated man comes here and defends the crap

I mean, where the fck should i begin to analyse these show of illiteracy and ignorance above.

My brother, no mind we Nigerians. We are steadfastly having the average IQ being reduced with each new generation.

@Op, sorry about your loss. This is the reason why I prefer buying things on eBay and Amazon if I must buy online. At least, I'm very sure that I'll get my full refund for any defective product I purchased. eBay even gives u up to 40days to open up a complaint (think they've even extended the period sef). My advice to u guys, if you want to buy a phone, tablet, etc online. Buy from Amazon or eBay. It's even cheaper there and you spend from 3k to 8k to ship it straight to your doorstep. All these ones saying good things about Jumia fit be their internet warriors sef.

Finally, we got to see the face behind the "wizardry". Really impressive, I must say.

abokinamu:
thunder fire you there idio t you get luck sey I no know your house if my guys for visit you this night them no go shoot you o na cutlass them go use design your face for you monki

Hahahaha. I'm starting to think that apart from the schizophrenia, the OP might also have MPD (Multiple Personality Disorder). What other explanation there is for the OP, ty265 and our new friend here.

Oh wait.... I see..... You just needed him to help you with a link to an app that you are too lazy to google for.

Nice.... Talk about grovelling.

texazzpete:
Still waiting for the OP to post his proof of running iOS apps on his Android phone. Just a video will do.

Unfortunately, his "friend from Ohio" told him that Apple will trace him to his hole if he should try it.

This is directly from the download page of inoty on Google Play. A description of the app "great wizard" claims to be able to speed up network speed along with screenshots for the pics-or-it-didn't-happen crew.

Description
This is a status bar replacement which provides translucent status bar and additional notificaiton counts when used with iLauncher.

Now I wonder if you know this app better than the developer itself, or maybe you have suddenly turned to a super developer and reverse-engineered the code and added some extra features the guy didn't know about. You and your other handle ty265 are really dumber than I thought earlier.

***In Master Yoda's voice*** Quite clueless are you, young padwan.

For those of you that still have the courage (foolish one, albeit) to continue following this silly OP. I suggest that you take a few minutes and read the following links first. If you like, you can say it only affected Korean Banks. It's just a simple rewrite of the same code and it will target 9ja banks.

http://www.securityweek.com/new-android-malware-targets-banking-apps-phone-information-fireeye

http://www.scmagazineuk.com/new-android-rat-threatens-mobile-banking-users/article/359074/

https://www.mysonicwall.com/sonicalert/searchresults.aspx?ev=article&id=697


They say a word is enough for the wise.

Jraph:
in my own understanding too much of American movies is disturbing you
ever since you were born have you never come across someone using internet banking on his/her phone before? have you in your life seen them complain that he/she downloaded one dodgy app from one dodgy site and before he/she knew what was happening he/she bank account was wiped out?? this is what too much of american movie use to cause and sorry I will not show you how to download from iTunes everything worked for me that was what made me to open this thread but along the way I was warned not to proceed with that it seems you just started using the internet please grow up I don't like exchanging words with people especially kids like you

Lol. Did I tell you I wanted to see you do the impossible? If I want to download ipa files from apple store, I know how to do it already. But you claimed to do the impossible which is to transform ur chinko to ios and install ios apps on it. Are you scared of Apple coming to pick you up at your rat hole? At least my own case is American movies, well it's better than having textbook schizophrenia with a delusional mind like you do. SMH

Jraph:
well I was successful in doing that but after speaking with a friend of mine living in Ohio I put a stop to it but I can proceed on every other thing but he said I must not use the software I was about using to download from iTunes he said apple will get me where ever I am in Africa but every other thing is safe to do and again even when I was using galaxy s4 for almost a year and half I've been downloading dodgy apps on dodgy sits as you call it and I've never come across any harm and I see no harm in it and again the developers made it possible to download paid apps for free for those who can't afford it and who don't have what it takes to buy it online someone who's got the money and the required card to buy paid apps won't waste his or her time looking another means of getting the app I'm sure you get my point

Now I truly believe what they say about people telling themselves a lie over and over again until they start to believe it. I'm still trying to figure out if you are just dumb or you are simply deluded. Didn't your "friend at Ohio" mention something called jailbreaking that allows iPhone users do a whole bunch of things on their phones that Apple would love to put a stop to? Have Apple tracked down those people yet? I bet you didn't know that majority of such users live right there in the US with Apple. And you think Apple will leave those people that are far easier to track down and come after you that is living in one obscure dump in a 3rd world country that can't afford to buy enough data to stay online 24/7? I don't even know which is worse, what you say you're doing or the bigger fools that believe you. You remind of people that learn a few keyboard tricks and impress less smart folks by doing some tasks on the PC with just keyboard and no mouse. Not to sound condescending, let me explain to you fellas what he has been doing.
All he simply did was to install some personalization apps that changed the look and feel of his android phone. The part where he asked someone to change something to LTE to make it faster was really funny and sad at the same time. That was just an app that changes your carrier label to anything you want. If you used Symbian and done tweaks back then you'll know what I'm talking about. It's just a fancy text to be displayed on top of your screen. Notice the way his own is even overlapping with other stuffs there? After all said and done, the only thing you will achieve is to have your android LOOK like and IOS. To become a true iOS, you'll need to totally remove and replace your Android OS. You won't be able to run ANY iOS apps unless you can come up with an emulator for it that runs on Android. Similar to what BBOS 10 did that enabled it run Android apps. Until I see either the OP installing *.ipa apps and not *.apk all he's doing is making a lot of noise. And as someone pointed out, you are running a risk by installing such dodgy apps. The risk is greater if your phone is rooted. It's greatest if you have bank apps on ur phone. You might find out the hard way just how bad an idea this is.
Even with this explanation, I know the op won't back down cos he truly believes in his illusions and some of you will take that to mean he's genuinely doing what he claims to do. Good luck you all. You'll need it when I see the majority of you hanging out at the thread for helping out people with issues on their android phones.

@OP, I can see you're a special kind of stewpeed. @Everyone that believes him, una own level of stewpeedity can never be quantified. SMH at all of una.

Neat. Will try this method next time.

Omimah:
The person that posted the thread on the increase in the trend of court and church weddings is Igbo. This is understood. The Igbo set aside a day for traditional marriage which is characterized by huge spending. Among the Yoruba, much is not spent because both the traditional marriage (which they choose to call engagement) and the church wedding take place on the same day. The engagement which takes place early in the day is characterized by just the groom's family giving the bride's family the bride price, which always not much. The ceremony doesn't last upto two hours, after which the guests are fed with a light meal like tea and bread or yam and souce.

Sorry, but you are wrong in some parts of your post. I'm also Igbo and we also have engagements which we call Introduction and it is a very small ceremony usually attended by the groom and few members of his family at the bride's house. There the dowry/brideprice can be paid or paid on the day of the wedding proper. The brideprice varies across the states with some parts of Imo state being known for the high brideprice demanded and others like Anambra and Enugu having as low Three thousand naira as brideprice. Most families even return part of the brideprice immediately after it is paid. The wedding proper is the traditional marriage and it is usually done in the evening unlike what is obtained today and it isn't supposed to cost much and the time it takes is less than an hour after which the celebration/reception begins.

This is my view on the whole White/Court wedding thing and not really as a counter post to Sweetlemon's post here https://www.nairaland.com/1904185/growing-trend-men-shying-away

I saw a post on nairaland by a girl, urging her fellow ladies to always insist on having a white/court wedding after traditional one. And then I got thinking, of what use is it to have a church/mosque/court wedding after having a traditional one? I know it has become the norm with us here but seriously, I think this is one of the vestiges of the West in our culture today.
When you really look at it, there really is not that any difference when one weds in the church/mosque/court or when you have just a traditional wedding. Call me whatever, but I think that traditional wedding should be primary and take preeminence, and that church/mosque/court weddings be made optional. These are my reasons:


1. The Religious Aspect: Let me start from this aspect first cos I know that one is what everyone will love to jump to first. Before the advent of Christianity, people have always been getting married and having weddings. But how it was done then is sooooo much different from how it is done now. In biblical times, this is how a marriage/wedding is done:
Bible speaks of three "C" of weddings: Contract, Consummation, and Celebration. These same things exist today in modern
marriages but the order and timing of each stage is different. Ancient Jewish weddings never involved a wedding ceremony like we see today with the bride walking down the aisle to be married in the synagogue.
In fact the present day "wedding ceremony" is something that did not develop for hundreds of years after Jesus rose from the dead. Modern Jewish weddings are as removed and different from the ancient Jewish marriage culture of the first century as Christian weddings are.

There were three states of a marriage in the Bible:

Stage 1: Signing the "ketubbah" contract (Creating the marriage bond)
The bride would chose her husband and her father would sign a legal contract with him called a "ketubbah". Once this is signed the couple is 100% married but do not have sex yet.
Young children were often married, (arraigned marriage) but did not consummate until of age.

Stage 2: The "chuppah": sexual consummation.
Up to 7 years later, the groom is able to raise the money as set out in the ketubbah contract and notifies the father of the bride, who then sets a date to consummate the marriage at the bride's home. The bride waits with her maidens, for the arrival of the groom and his companions. The couple enters the chuppah room and consummates the marriage while the companions of the bride and groom wait and celebrate outside or in the next room. The groom hands the bloodied "proof of virginity cloth" to the witnesses chosen by the bride's parents, who then give it to the bride for safekeeping.

Stage 3: The wedding feast
After consummation, the entire wedding party walks to the house of the groom in a procession for a wedding feast. At the conclusion of the wedding feast, the couple has completed the ancient ritual of marriage. There was no "wedding ceremony" in the synagogue in the first century, performed under a canopy where the bride and groom would hold hands and say, "I do" before an audience of friends and family. This didn’t develop for hundreds of years after Jesus died on the cross.

A few examples from OT:

The three stages of Isaac's marriage to Rebekah: Gen 24.

[b]Contract (stage 1): [/b]Gen 24:33, Gen 24:51-53, Gen 24:57-58. An offer of marriage is proposed. The offer is accepted and
Rebekah is married by contract. Gifts and money are given both to the bride and the parents of the bride. Notice that
Rebekah was asked if she consented to the marriage.

[b]Consummation (stage 2): [/b]Gen 24:64-67. Rebekah and Isaac go to the tent.
[b]Celebration (stage 3): [/b]No mention of wedding feast, but one likely happened.

The three stages of Jacob's marriage to Leah: Gen 29.

[b]Contract (stage 1): [/b]Gen 29:15-20. Jacob contracts to work for 7 in advance before he gets the girl.
[b]Consummation (stage 2): [/b]Gen 29:21-26. Jacob pays the dowry price of 7 years and takes Leah into the tent.
[b]Celebration (stage 3): [/b]Gen 29:27-28. He completed the 7 day wedding feast with Leah.

The three stages of Jacob's marriage to Rachel: Gen 29.

[b]Contract (stage 1): [/b]Gen 29:27. Jacob contracts to work for 7 MORE years but gets to consummate the wedding at the
before he pays the full dowry.
[b]Consummation (stage 2): [/b]Gen 29:30. He took Leah into the tent at the beginning of the 7 day feast, then at the end of the 7 day feast he took Rachel into the tent.
[b]Celebration (stage 3): [/b]Gen 29:27-28. The 7 day wedding feast was for both girls.

Now the above is what constitutes a wedding back in biblical times. And yet, this is recognized by God as a valid
marriage. There was no need to go to the synagogue for the Rabbi to officiate and bless the marriage, that can be fully
done by both parents and you know how much God honors the blessings/curses of the parents over the children, case in
point Isaac to Jacob and Esau, and Jacob to his 12 sons. I'm not against inviting the pastor/imam to bless the union,
but it shouldn't be a neccessity. I can't really talk about the muslim point of view because I'm yet to attend a muslim wedding to compare it with stories of weddings done in the Quran if there are any there. So, I think this has covered the religious aspects of today's christian weddings.

[b]2.The Legal Aspect: [/b]From the time before the colonials came and changed our ways, we've all had series of traditional laws and statutes that we live by. When it comes to marriage, we can see it in the way we perform our cultural weddings, what are expected of both the couple are made known to both of them and when they fulfill all obligations, they are legally married. Then the white man comes along and tells us that our ways aren't right. That marriages are no longer convenants like it was to us back in the days, but now a legal arrangement of sorts that is backed up by a legal document/license. And poof, they imposed their own culture and we bought it. Now 54 years after they left, we still
believe that theirs is the way and ours is not. I know many will say, we need to do the church/court wedding because they need that license especially for legalities like traveling, immigration, divorce, properties, titles and other stuff, and I'm all for it, truly. But my question is, why can't we make our traditional weddings to carry the same amount of legal weight, if not more than that of a white/court wedding has? Yes, you get issued a marriage certificate by the church/court (which is by the way renewable after some years or so. Another of making money for the
church/state. Call it marriage tax), why can't we do the same during traditional weddings? A marriage certificate can be issued by the Office of the Igwe/Baale/Oba/Emir/Sultan etc of the local government area or village of the couple or that of the locality of the area where the marriage was conducted. That way, it becomes fully entrenched as it should be in our constitution, because by Nigerian law, traditional wedding is 100% legal and valid. Adding the license part makes it even more valid and can be used in any legal standing in and out of the country.

[b]3. The Cultural Aspect: [/b]Why is it that we tend to value the western culture over ours? Our culture is very rich and even the West knows that and make documentaries out of it but only after they have successfully made us lose ours to theirs. Gradually, most aspects of our culture are giving way and getting lost over time. Our own indigenous languages are being looked down upon by us and termed barbaric. Take for instance, the Nigerian TV anchors and newscasters. They all have one thing in common, a fake accent. They want people watching them believe that their mastery of the English language is so perfect and the accent well polished. It works most times because when they make grammatical errors, we don't even know because we have gotten the impression that with such an accent, they can't go wrong. The same way it is with our traditional weddings. Most people will tell you that they rather do the white/court wedding and skip the traditional because it is archaic to them and "local". They want something chic and modern. Funny thing about it is that what we call "local" the west call exotic. Recently an Italian couple came here and had a Nigerian traditional marriage in Imo state. And I'm talking about the bride and groom both being Italians, not even blacks. Meanwhile our celebs have caught the "I must have my wedding abroad" bug, with the likes of 2 face and Tiwa Savage. After the wedding, it will be shown on HipTv as a mini series for some ladies to drool on and start having some silly and unrealistic dreams that they expect their future husbands to make real. Anyways, that's a story for another day.

4. The Logical/Common Sense Aspect: Now this just me being sensible here. Of what use is it that you have to have two weddings done? In this time wey owu dey blow guys anyhow? I mean, think about the cost implications of it and ask yourself "is it sensible?". After the traditional, you still end up doing either a white or court wedding again and for what? Just so that you can get a license (for the sensible ones) or have that Mills and Boon/Princess Dairies/Fairy Tale wedding that you have always been dreaming about ever since you stopped wearing diapers (I'm looking at some of you ladies). Some want to use it to show their "enemies" that their plans have failed. Many want it so elaborately done that they even higher a choreographer that will make the wedding look like a movie. I think if you really give the guys an option, a lot will rather have one and not both weddings. Especially when they are the ones bearing the major burden of the costs of the wedding. Some people even use the white wedding as a competition of sorts where the bride's family competes with that of the groom's. They set up separate canopies and stands that will cater to their own invitees. Each family will prepare their own separate gifts that they give out to guests. Such gifts will be well labeled with "Courtesy of the Bride's/Groom's family". Anyone wey try that kind stunt on wedding will see my other side sha......

There are other reasons that I have but I these points will suffice for now and they are enough reasons for me not to subscribe to the whole "We must do white/court wedding" thingy.

Cuteclem: swap with clone s4

Nice, a clone for a clone. Lol.